eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2021

Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories – a Paris-based nonprofit media group that works with journalists – said earlier this week that users of the Israeli-developed spyware were able to hack into iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 devices, as well as Android devices, of tens of thousands of people – including a number of world leaders.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Russia moved ahead of the United Kingdom into third place (China remains second), "largely as a result of greater demonstrations of intent and capability in the fields of espionage, destructive attacks, and domestic surveillance," according to the announcement of the NCPI's release. Surveillance – 4th behind China, Vietnam, and Iran.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Blackberry released a report centered around an entity they call Zebra 2104 and which appears to be an “initial access broker” According to their research, Zebra 2014 has provided ransomware operators with an initial foothold into some of their victims. More disruptive attacks. This prediction proved to be accurate.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2020

“Stadler internal surveillance services found out that the company’s IT network has been attacked by malware which has most likely led to a data leak. ” reported the Swiss media. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware). The scale of this leak has to be further analyzed. Stadler is assuming “a professional attack”. .

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Ransomware Unlike DDoS malicious programs, ransomware largely targets IoT devices that contain user data: NAS boxes. DeadBolt, which affected thousands of QNAP NAS devices in 2022, is a prominent example of IoT ransomware. Therefore, we did not issue a certificate.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

While multimillion-dollar ransomware demands are shocking, they can be quickly forgotten. Pegasus is the creation of the NSO Group , an Israeli firm that licenses it to governments to perform surveillance. Media outlets first reported the existence of the spyware in 2016. Photo by Marília Castelli on Unsplash.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Kraken ransomware 2.0 Flaw in Icecast streaming media server allows to take off online Radio Stations. Snowden speaks about the role of surveillance firm NSO Group in Khashoggi murder. Once again thank you! Apple T2 security chip in new MacBooks disconnects Microphone when lid is closed. is available through the RaaS model.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2018

. · Group-IB experts record a massive surge of user data leaks form cryptocurrency exchanges. · HP releases firmware updates for two critical RCE flaws in Inkjet Printers. · TSMC Chip Maker confirms its facilities were infected with WannaCry ransomware. · GitHub started warning users when adopting compromised credentials. · (..)

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Also, “they may not have known that they were hacked for a period of time if their internal surveillance tools are deficient.”. A ransomware attack was detected in February, but complexity of the attack hid the breach from investigators for several months.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

At the end of September, at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit , our researchers provided an overview of FinSpy , an infamous surveillance toolset that several NGOs have repeatedly reported being used against journalists, political dissidents and human rights activists. FinSpy: analysis of current capabilities. Other malware.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

2023 cybersecurity issues will continue: Weak IT fundamentals, poor cybersecurity awareness, and ransomware will still cause problems and make headlines. Social media will become even more of a cesspool of AI and human-created garbage.” This even subsequently led to an executive order and guidance on ransomware in 2021.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 413 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

“DJ Slava Rich,” seen here performing as a DJ in Ukraine in an undated photo from social media. “In early October, the Ukrainian surveillance team said they’d lost him,” he wrote. The mules in turn would forward any stolen payroll deposits — minus their commissions — via wire transfer overseas.

Banking 275

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

Emsisoft released a free decryptor for the Ims00rry ransomware. DoppelPaymer, a fork of BitPaymer Ransomware, appeared in the threat landscape. DoppelPaymer, a fork of BitPaymer Ransomware, appeared in the threat landscape. Media File Jacking allows manipulating media files users receive via Android WhatsApp and Telegram.

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Small Business Media Spyware DNS 56

Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2021

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Spyware 54

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

No one stops the tech giants, media conglomerates and online advertisers from intensively monetizing consumers’ online behaviors, largely without meaningful disclosure. Related: The state of ransomware Who knew that much the same thing routinely happens to enterprises? The digital footprints of U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

LooCipher: The New Infernal Ransomware. China installs a surveillance app on tourists phones while crossing in the Xinjiang. Google addressed three critical code execution flaws in Android Media Framework. Sodin Ransomware includes exploit for Windows CVE-2018-8453 bug. Bangladesh Cyber Heist 2.0: Silence APT goes global.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

I think ransomware, they see attackers running a series of very predictable commands. If you think about right around 2014 when the first bits of ransomware started dealing with harming sophisticated businesses, organized crime was determined to take down business information, hold data for ransom, and profit off of it.".

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

An ad for RedTorch’s “Cheetah” counter-surveillance tech. Known locations results are based on social media profiles and metadata where, for example, there was an image posted that showed GPS location, or the profile mentions locations among its comments. Last month, the U.S.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2020

To do so, they are using a variety of digital communications and surveillance systems. More recently, in 2018, Russia undertook an extensive disinformation campaign to amplify the anti-vaccination movement using social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. That vulnerability should be deeply concerning.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

Either in courts or in the media, hackers have been demonized. I've been in touch with some notable names and media and they've you know, they've assured me that they'll make a best effort. McAninch: So we have throughout the last year, year and a half, we've reached out to a lot of different media outlets. McAninch: Excellent.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It was for 1000s of compromised, Internet of Things, enabled devices, such as surveillance cameras, residential gateways, internet connected printers, and even in home baby monitors these devices themselves are often thought of as not having much in the way of resources, and really they don't have many computing resources.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

On June 3, Check Point published a report about an ongoing surveillance operation targeting a Southeast Asian government, and attributed the malicious activities to a Chinese-speaking threat actor named SharpPanda. In this campaign, a broad spectrum of industries located in South Korea were targeted with custom ransomware.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Earlier this year, an investigation by 17 of the world's largest media outlets into the NSO Group discovered widespread abuse of the hacking spyware Pegasus. government, and everyday citizens do to stop the surge of ransomware and cyber threats hitting us from overseas? That’s never a winning business plan.".

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

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SecureList

JULY 29, 2021

FourteenHi abuses the popular VLC media player to execute its loader. However, we observed that ScarCruft compromised a North Korea-related news media website in January, beginning a campaign that was active until March. For further surveillance of the victim, the malware operator may also deploy additional tools.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The malware posed as ransomware, demanding money from the victims for “decrypting” their data. A creative avenue for threat actors is to expand their surveillance efforts to include devices such as smart home cameras, connected car systems and beyond. In July 2023, we privately reported new FiveSys signed variants.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

They would also prevent data breaches and ransomware attacks from spilling our data out into the digital underworld, including hacker message boards and chat servers, hostile state actors, and outside hacker groups. Today, data surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

billion in 2021, and growing concerns over data security , software supply chains , and ransomware suggest the market will remain strong through economic ups and downs. Also read : Cybersecurity Outlook 2022: Third-Party, Ransomware, and AI Attacks Will Get Worse. Investments in cybersecurity more than doubled from $12 billion to $29.5

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Will Enable Mass Spying Reddit Says Leaked U.S.-U.K. billion personal records compromised by data breaches in past two years — underscoring need for end‑to‑end encryption Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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